Engineering students at Mich. test cane that reads electronic tags to guide blindDETROIT — A cane equipped with the technology that retailers use to tag merchandise could help blind people avoid obstacles. Hurricane Carlos strengthens hundreds of miles off Mexico’s Baja California peninsulaMEXICO CITY — Hurricane Carlos swirled far off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday and was headed farther out to sea. Alloy sleeves, passport covers urged to block identity thieves and hackersTo protect against skimming and eavesdropping attacks, federal and state officials recommend that Americans keep their e-passports tightly shut and store their RFID-tagged passport cards and enhanced driver’s licenses in “radio-opaque” sleeves. As government tags passports, licenses, critics fear privacy is ‘chipped’ awayClimbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. |